Love Trials

[WordSword]

“I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly unto her” (Hosea 2:14).

 “As we begin to grow, we are governed; as we begin to mature, we are allured.” -MJS

 

“By trial our Father reveals we can suffer His will as well as do it.  By trial He weans us from the world, draws us to His Son, drives us to the Word and to prayer and shows us our hearts and makes us humble.  We are to learn to be patient in the days of darkness.  Our trials are not meant to do us harm, but good.  Our Father chastens us ‘for our profit, that we may become partakers of His holiness’ (Heb 12:10).” –J C R

“The great teaching of the wilderness is dependence upon the Father.  The really heavenly man must be in a scene like this the most dependent man; and whenever anyone learns his heavenly calling truly and walks according to it conscientiously, he ever finds that new circumstances or trials occur, to keep him dependent; so that the truly heavenly man is the best wilderness man.

“If our affections are to the glorified Lord Jesus, they will make this world a wilderness to us but if our affections do not make it a wilderness His government will.  The Father love us too well to allow our hearts to nestle here; and He makes us conscious that it is a wilderness that He may have opportunity in our loneliness and our sorrow to speak to our heart.  The Voice that could not be heard in the din and bustle and amid the laughter of the city can be heard in the silence and solitude of the wilderness.” –C A C

“Why has the Father brought you to despair?  In order to keep you from looking for any ground of hope in yourself; that you should not trust in yourself, but in God Who raiseth the dead.” -MJS

“For the Father Himself loveth you” (John 16:27).

[Riverwalker]

May I ask what MJS C A C and JCR are?

 

[WordSword]

3 minutes ago, Riverwalker said:

May I ask what MJS C A C and JCR are?

 

Hi, and thanks for your concern! Miles J Stanford. 

Charles Andrew Coates (1862-1945); John Charles Ryle (1816-1900): These are two among many Plymouth Brethren (in Europe mostly) writers who specialized in spiritual growth teachings circa late 1600's-late 1800's.

Miles is the one who compiled their choice writings into book form, and his best work is "None But The Hungry Heart" daily devotional, which to me (studying them for 20 years now) is a catalyst for preparing for the articles I share. 

http://www.abideabove.com/hungry-heart/

 

 

[Riverwalker]

Thank you.

I tend to be a bit leery of the words of men, but in these quotes I find the word and truth of God.

James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 

I especially like the quote

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“Why has the Father brought you to despair?  In order to keep you from looking for any ground of hope in yourself; that you should not trust in yourself, but in God Who raiseth the dead.” -MJS

Thanks for posting

Edited February 26, 2021 by Riverwalker

[Willa]

I find a lot of truth in the words of Stanford and Ryle.   I have a lot of respect for the early Plymouth Brethren.    

[Riverwalker]

1 minute ago, Willa said:

I find a lot of truth in the words of Stanford and Ryle.   I have a lot of respect for the early Plymouth Brethren.    

yeah, I am really going to have to look into this

[Willa]

I have ancestors in the early 1800s who were Plymouth Brethren.  My Great-great grandfather was a song leader and became a physician at a P.Brethern college.  They don't have formal church government but are led by elders whose leadership is recognized by other elders.  Some prominent members are:

FF Bruce---good commentaries

John Nelson Darby--Theologian pastor/teacher 

Jim Elliot, Missionary martyred in Equador

Harry Ironside--pastor of Moody Church, Chicago,  also good commentaries. theologian

George Muller--orphanages in England

Watchman Nee--Chinese pastor, author and martyr

Hudson Taylor--Missionary to China

Willian E. Vine--author of Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words, among others.

[WordSword]

3 hours ago, Riverwalker said:

Thank you.

I tend to be a bit leery of the words of men, but in these quotes I find the word and truth of God.

James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 

I especially like the quote

Thanks for posting

Thank you too for the interest. The best thing I can recommend now is viewing the daily reading in this devotional, and you can read on ahead or before the present date shown. Let me know how you like it after a little bit. God bless, and God be blessed!

https://www.brethrenarchive.org/people/

 

[WordSword]

3 hours ago, Willa said:

I find a lot of truth in the words of Stanford and Ryle.   I have a lot of respect for the early Plymouth Brethren.    

Hi and thanks for the encouragement! Go bless!!